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In one of sports' classic rivalries, Brian Gionta and the Montreal Canadiens (45 pts.) travel to TD Garden in Boston to take on Zdeno Chara and the Boston Bruins (45 pts.) in a head-to-head battle for the top spot in the Northeast Division, on NBC Sports Network's "Wednesday Night Rivalry" at 7:30 p.m. Emmy Award-winning play-by-play commentator Mike "Doc" Emrick, analyst Eddie Olczyk, and "Inside-the-Glass" analyst Pierre McGuire will call the game.
Coverage begins at 6:30 p.m. with "NHL Live," NBC Sports Group's NHL pregame show. Liam McHugh hosts "NHL Live" from Studio 2 at NBC Sports Group's International Broadcast Center in Stamford, Conn., and will be joined by analysts Mike Milbury and Keith Jones.
In addition to NBC Sports Network's "Wednesday Night Rivalry" matchup between the Canadiens and Bruins, NBC and NBC Sports Network will also deliver coverage of four other games over three days and nights, beginning Sunday: Chicago Blackhawks-Detroit Red Wings, Sunday at 12:30 p.m. on NBC; Boston Bruins-Buffalo Sabres, Sunday at 7:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network; Colorado Avalanche-Detroit Red Wings, Monday at 7:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network; and Buffalo Sabres-Pittsburgh Penguins, Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network.
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"NHL on NBC" coverage will continue on Sunday, March 31, at 12:30 p.m. with a classic Central Division matchup between the league-leading Chicago Blackhawks (51 pts.), who started the season with a record-breaking 22-game point streak, and the Detroit Red Wings (39 pts.), who are currently in second place in the division. The Blackhawks and Red Wings have split their two previous meetings this season, with both games ending in 2-1 final scores. Emrick, Olczyk and McGuire will call the action from Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
Sunday night on NBC Sports Network, the Boston Bruins (45 pts.) will travel to the First Niagara Center in Buffalo to take on the Sabres (30 pts.) at 7:30 p.m. The Bruins are tied with the Canadiens for the top spot in the Northeast and will look to capitalize against the Sabres, who are making a late-season surge in the playoff race. Dave Strader (play-by-play) and Brian Engblom ("Inside-the-Glass") will call the game.
Avalanche-Red Wings
Monday, April 1, the Detroit Red Wings will host the Colorado Avalanche (26 pts.) at 7:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network. Emrick and McGuire will call the game from Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.
On Tuesday, April 2, Sidney Crosby and the surging Pittsburgh Penguins (50 pts.) will take the ice against the Buffalo Sabres at 7:30 p.m. on NBC Sports Network. The Penguins have won 12 consecutive games and are chasing the Blackhawks for the top spot in the league. If the Penguins continue their current win streak, the team will enter its game against Buffalo having won 15 straight games, tied for second most in the history of the NHL ('82-83 New York Islanders). A win against the Sabres could put Pittsburgh one game shy of tying the record for most consecutive wins in the history of the league ('92-93 Pittsburgh Penguins - 17 games). Strader and Engblom will call the action from the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh.


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Bus travel through India's mountainous regions involves dramatic scenery, remote villages, fresh air and colorful passengers. The only thing missing sometimes is the road itself.
An overly squeaky, yet oddly enjoyable, Hindi pop song blared from the crackly speakers as the decrepit bus chugged along through India's remote Spiti Valley. The wooden-planked floor rattled constantly, adding a unique beat to the tune along with the hypnotic vibrations of the many broken window frames. The bouncing up and down of the passengers, in response to the cracks, potholes and rocks on this semi-paved 'highway', resembled a choreographed piece of modern dance.
The bus was full, every bench holding up to four colorfully dressed locals crammed together. The bags of rice, sacks of vegetables, and bulky boxes of unknown goods packed into the aisles acted as seats for more than a dozen others. I sat in the back row of the bus, where the five seats held eight people and legs overlapped in an intricate and intimate pattern.
I was headed from the mountaintop village of Dhankar to the riverside village of Tabo, home to the most revered and ancient Buddhist monastery in the Himalayas. Having been pre-warned that this journey usually covered the not-too-great distance of approximately 30 miles in around 2.5 hours, I had no choice but to accept this episode of bone-fracturing Indian travel.
All seemed perfectly on schedule as our bus moved along at its incredibly slow pace for the first hour, quite a feat considering that, during long stretches of straight road, our maximum cruising speed still never exceeded 15 miles per hour.
However, the leisurely meandering through these massive 15,000-foot Himalayan mountains, only a short distance from the mysterious Tibetan border, left me mesmerized by the awe-inspiring views at all times. Tiny Tibetan villages, recognizable by the scores of multi-colored prayer flags flapping in the wind, appeared in the most unexpected of places, impossibly high up on the slopes or far down below along the banks of the Chandra River.
Every now and then the bus would come to a stop at some unmarked location, with no human activity anywhere in sight. But sure enough, a passenger would disembark and vanish along a barely visible path that provided no indication of a destination. Looking around in all directions at the completely uninhabited landscape, I was often left to use my imagination in determining where this person could possibly be headed.
At moments such as these, being subjected to another slice of India's wonder, I would glance down at the small sticker I had placed on the front of my backpack earlier in the day and I would repeat its simple words, "I love India!", over and over again, fully appreciating every minute of my journey.
Of course, despite the happiness of being in such a unique part of the world, when the bus suddenly came to a halt and the driver turned off the engine, I was thrilled to observe all of the other passengers begin to collect their belongings and exit the bus. I definitely welcomed what appeared to be an early arrival at Tabo.
Unfortunately, this thrill was short-lived as I quickly discovered that we had not in fact reached Tabo one hour earlier than scheduled. Instead, we had stopped behind another bus, one completely empty of passengers and with its driver taking an afternoon nap on the roof. Our own driver climbed the ladder to the roof of this other bus, shook awake its driver and offered him a cigarette. While they shared a smoke, I chose to investigate.
The situation soon revealed itself – the road was gone.
I asked the young man who had been sitting next to me on the bus for an explanation. After introducing himself as Tenzin, asking about the salaries in my country and providing a detailed account of the lives of his two children, he finally explained that a major landslide had taken place a few days earlier.
Due to heavy monsoon rains, a ¼-mile stretch of road had loosened and plunged five hundred feet to the bottom of the valley floor. Where there should have been pavement there was instead a fragile and very alive terrain of dirt and mud and rocks, with the unsteady earth still tumbling avalanche-style to the bottom every few seconds.
Some of the other passengers immediately began walking along a narrow switchback trail that criss-crossed down the mountainside next to the road. Tenzin noticed my confusion and began to point repeatedly, straight across the wide gap in front of us, to our "new bus there". I glanced across and after a good scan of the horizon located our destination, where the road started once again. But it took a second for the situation to sink in as I began noticing tiny specks moving in a line along the bottom of the valley floor and then straight up what appeared to be a sheer cliff on the other side.
These barely visible dots proved to be the passengers from the bus ahead of us, and while my initial reaction to the unexpected challenge that now lay ahead involved a good deal of rock-throwing and head-shaking, it did not take long for me to remember that, in India, you'll be left behind if you don't keep up with the non-stop pace of life. I needed to stop whining and start hiking.
The difficult path rapidly descended several hundred feet to the bottom of the valley where it led to a vast field of thousands of recently fallen boulders, a field that I needed to navigate.
After a couple of minutes of hiking across this landscape in my sturdy New Balance cross-trainers, and despite considering myself to be in good physical condition, I noticed that I was constantly being passed by the locals. On a normal day this would not have bothered me, but when a 90-year old Tibetan woman with a basket full of vegetables on her head, wearing mangled, plastic flip-flops skipped past me without hesitation, I felt pathetic. Her two-toothed smile seemed to be a mocking gesture, a sense that intensified with each smiling, waving person that continued to fly by me, hopping from rock to unsteady rock with effortless ease.
Nobody at all seemed the least bit disturbed that their peaceful bus journey home was suddenly interrupted by the need to carry their belongings on a strenuous two-mile hike through an inhospitable and unchartered mountain valley.
Eventually, I reached the waist-deep raging stream, on the banks of which I stood for some time, unable to determine how the two dozen people in front of me had reached the other side. Only when I turned around and realized that I was the last passenger to cross did I inhale deeply and start jumping along a scattered collection of slippery rocks, semi-submerged in the frigid water. Upon reaching the other side, I was delighted that I had managed to only soak one pant leg up to the thigh.
So proud was I! That is until I looked in front of me.
What had earlier appeared off in the distance as a sheer cliff face of mud and rock turned out to be exactly what I now faced. As I watched my fellow passengers, hoping to find some clever local guidance, I instead discovered that the several hundred-foot climb was of the "anything goes" type of adventure. Some people followed a four-inch wide path that zig-zagged its way up, others just tried to bolt straight up the mountainside and a few people pulled each other up step by step. Regardless of what they were doing, they were moving and I was not.
I slowly began climbing, clinging to any rock, shrub or chunk of mud that I could grab onto. My sweaty clothes stuck to my body, dirt covered most of my face and my back painfully ached under the weight of my backpack. At several points I wanted to quit, convincing myself that a small hut in this valley would actually not be such a terrible 'starter home'. But every time I looked straight up to the top, observed yet another Tibetan great-grandmother reaching the road without breaking a sweat, I forced myself to plod along.
The moment when I grabbed onto flat land and pulled myself over the final ledge gave me such joy that I immediately fell to the ground and smiled in victory, with my lungs inflating and deflating at the speed of light.
I was an adventurer! A warrior! A god of the mountains! I was….about to miss the bus.
I heard the unmistakable, migraine-inducing honking of an Indian bus horn. Glancing up, I found Tenzin two-hundred feet away waving furiously for me to hurry. Stumbling off on the final stretch, I dragged my backpack next to me and tried to clear the chunks of mud out of my nostrils.
Just before I reached the bus I passed a group of 3 middle-aged Indian couples who were about to embark on this hike in the reverse direction. They took one glance at me and seemed to become quite concerned about what lay ahead. I looked at them, the ladies in their clean pastel-colored saris and high-heeled shoes and the men in their pressed trousers and dress shirts, each person carrying a piece of luggage. "Very easy," I said, "No problem." They thanked me for this good piece of news and I hobbled on.
As the final passenger to arrive, I received not only a hearty round of applause from my fellow bus mates but my repulsive appearance also induced a solid bout of uproarious laughter. And as I fell into my seat in the back row of the bus, once again next to Tenzin, I admitted that I deserved this humiliation. Everyone else looked as if they had just walked out of the day spa at a Four Seasons in Hawaii.
The torture had now ended and as the bus drove off I wasted no time in closing my eyes and entering the deepest of sleeps. My body needed to relax and even the mesmerizing Himalayan scenery could no longer attract my attention.
I slept for what felt like an hour, until I was awaken by Tenzin shaking my arm. I opened my eyes, let out a big yawn, and seeing the smile on Tenzin's face, began anticipating a nice comfortable hotel room with mountain views and a hot cup of chai.
"Tabo!" I shouted.
Tenzin just patted my leg, let out a small chuckle and said, "No Tabo. No road. New bus."
And off we went again to cross another landslide.
Have you ever been to the Spiti Valley? Or been stuck in a landslide? Any adventures to share?


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Mar 21, 2011
As anyone looking for information on the health of the Android Market would know, Google updates the stats very infrequently. Wouldn't it be nice to have the most recent information at your fingertips on a daily basis? Thanks to the folks at AppBrain, we finally have exactly that.
On Monday, March 14, 2011, AppBrain launched a new service that should prove extremely useful to anyone interested in getting an idea of what's going on in the Android Market. From the most popular apps in each category to the most popular phones, SDKs, search terms and words, it's all available in the AppBrain Android Stats, and updated on a daily basis.


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* HSI flat, H-shares -0.3 pct, CSI300 +0.4 pct
* ICBC shares down after Goldman sells $1 bln stake
* GOME drops after warning of 2012 net loss
* Chinese property up on more reports of warming market
* HSI flat, H-shares -0.3 pct, CSI300 +0.4 pct
* ICBC shares down after Goldman sells $1 bln stake
* GOME drops after warning of 2012 net loss
* Chinese property up on more reports of warming market
By Clement Tan
HONG KONG, Jan 29 (Reuters) - Hong Kong shares held steady
at Monday's 20-month closing high, underperforming Asian peers
largely due to a weak Chinese banking sector after Goldman Sachs
sold a $1 billion stake in Industrial and Commercial Bank of
China (ICBC).
The Hang Seng Index went into Tuesday's midday
trading break flat. The China Enterprises Index of the
top Chinese listings in Hong Kong slipped 0.3 percent. In spite
of Goldman's ICBC stake sale, turnover at midday was rather
In the mainland, the CSI300 of the largest
Shanghai and Shenzhen A-share listings climbed 0.4 percent,
while the Shanghai Composite Index was flat as volumes
picked up in late morning trade.
"The Chinese banking sector is actually holding up quite
well, but the Goldman sale is triggering some profit taking and
rotation into some laggard energy names today," said Jackson
Wong, Tanrich Securities' vice-president for equity sales.
After the market closed on Monday, Goldman Sachs offered
shares of ICBC at HK$5.77, a 3 percent discount to the
day's near 2-year close at HK$5.95.
On Tuesday, the shares slid 2.4 percent to HK$5.81 - which
pointed to healthy demand for the bank, given that the stock
dropped less than 3 percent.
Still, there were losses on Tuesday for most Chinese banking
shares in both onshore and offshore markets. ICBC's
shares in Shanghai fell 0.9 percent, while Bank of Communication
shed 0.9 percent in Hong Kong and 1 percent in
China Business News reported that the country's banking
regulator is examining ways to improve the current system used
to monitor the loan-to-deposit ratios of mainland commercial
Shares of Bain Capital-backed GOME Electrical Appliance
dropped 1.1 percent after China's second-largest home
appliance retailer said late on Monday that it expects to have
suffered a loss last year partly due to its unprofitable
e-commerce business.
Tuesday's fall cut GOME gains in January to 2.2 percent. The
stock tumbled 49 percent in 2012, its third straight year of
GOME's larger rival Suning Appliance Co Ltd shed
1.4 percent in Shenzhen on Tuesday.
Strength in the Chinese property sector helped limit losses
in Hong Kong and propel mainland markets to new highs since
mid-2012 as investors welcomed more news reports of a warming
property sector in the world's second-largest economy.
The official China Securities Journal reported that January
land sales in Beijing hit a 11-year high, while the Shanghai
Daily said that average homes prices in Shanghai rose to a
30-week high, though mainly due to demand at a high-end project
in the city's Hongkou district.
China Vanke rose 2.8 percent to its highest
since August 2009 in Shenzhen, while Poly Real Estate
gained 1.9 percent in Shanghai. China Resources Land
edged up 0.6 percent in Hong Kong.
Rising oil prices helped Chinese oil giants CNOOC
rise 0.9 percent and China Petroleum and Chemical Corp (Sinopec)
gain 1.3 percent in Hong Kong.


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Tip o' the hat to Hill & Knowlton Global Technology Practice Director Josh Reynolds (bio, blog) for getting the ball rolling on how to approach the Hype Cycle. I met Josh early summer 2007 at Buck's of Woodside (famed and quirky Silicon Valley hangout for venture capitalists and digerati) to discuss his ideas for influencing the Hype Cycle. Josh's ideas were quite provocative and no doubt he can see a bit of their DNA in this piece of SageContentTM. I have not seen how Josh evolved his ideas into best practices, but perhaps he will post them on the H&K ARcade AR blog sometime in the near future.
As we mentioned in Thinking about Gartner's Hype Cycle, the Hype Cycle is the most read piece of Gartner signature research by its clients, but it is often ignored by the vendor community because it does not directly rate vendors' products or impact today's sales opportunities. However, this is shortsighted as the Hype Cycle is influential on future IT strategies and budgets. As a consequence, vendors should be investing time into the Hype Cycle today in order to have an impact two to three years down the road.
There are three broad categories that AR teams have to work on: flattening the curve, speeding progress, and ensuring that their company is considered an exemplar for a particular technology, service, or technique on a Hype Cycle. This post will focus on the first category.
Flattening the Curve – One problem that vendors face when a technology or service is mentioned on one of the Hype Cycles is that the Peak of Inflated Expectations can get so high that there is a backlash. This can completely derail a promising market before Continue reading
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Council extends advertising and design contract with Artinium Inc.
The council dealt with five items of business at Monday's meeting, including three that were approved, and two that were held.
On a 5-4 vote, the council overrode the mayor's veto of an ordinance it passed in September requesting that health care and pension actuaries appear before the council, but Mayor Scott Avedisian again vetoed it. It will automatically go before the council again at the next meeting, but this time the new council will take the vote.
In other action, a resolution regarding veterans' property tax exemptions unanimously passed, while a resolution requesting the state cap the former Truk-Away Landfill was held until Jan. 23 for further study. It has been on the agenda since September.
An ordinance regarding ward representation in Warwick boards and commissions was additionally held, as Ward 4 Councilman Joseph Solomon noted that because it's an ordinance, it requires two passages. He felt that the council-elect should get the opportunity to vote on both, with the rest of the council in agreement, including Ward 3 Councilwoman Camille Vella-Wilkinson, who sponsored it.
But the item that garnished the most attention was a resolution related to advertising and design services, which passed 7-2, with Ward 7 Councilman Charles "C.J." Donovan and Ward 9 Councilman Steven Merolla in opposition.
While Karen Jedson, the head of Warwick's Tourism, Culture and Development department, appeared before the council last month and explained that the original bid for advertising and design was awarded to Artinium Inc. for $125,000, the project came in under budget at $50,000, meaning they still had about $75,000 left. They want to extend the contract one year at no additional cost to the city.
"I don't see any problem extending it," said Ward 8 Councilman Ray Gallucci.
During the Finance Committee meeting, Vella-Wilkinson said Artinium Inc. is doing an "absolutely phenomenal" job with design services. She said as more and more people are investing in smart phones, they are viewing the site through their phones, as well as on their computers.
"There is no distortion when you're looking at the website from a big screen to an iPhone, and that is because of the type of coding Artinium is using," she said.
Yet, resident Richard Langseth expressed frustration with the economic development department. He said he has tried to communicate with them, suggesting that they look into a created Linked-In profile, a social media outlet for businesses, but they never got back to him. He feels the department should use the money to create jobs, and doesn't believe the department is doing so.
"I'm not sure that this $75,000 is targeted in that direction," said Langseth. "It seems to me it's more like, 'Oh, let's say how great the city is.' I really think at some point the City Council should look at this issue and try to decide whether we're an economic development or a tourism department. It's very, very confusing. Going forward we really need to look at this economic development department and make it into one, rather than this wacky tourism thing."
Another resident, Roy Dempsey, agreed with Langseth.
"I have no idea what this department does," he said. "They spent $50,000, with $75,000 they didn't use. I question giving them anything until they come back to us and explain what positive benefits we're getting for this amount of money."
Gallucci explained that the money is derived from the Tourism Department, saying, "We can't go out and do something else with it."
As the chair of economic development, Vella-Wilkinson defended the department. She said they have a presence on social media, with more than 4,000 followers on Twitter, in addition to operating a Facebook page, and feels the city is getting "the bang for the buck." She said Warwick residents don't see any direct results because the outreach is for people outside of the city of Warwick.
Vella-Wilkinson feels the fact that Artinium didn't spend the full amount is a good thing, as the company is promoting the city under bid.
"Instead of wasting it, they are saying we can get additional time with it," she said. "If you want to talk about economic development, Mr. Langseth, you've got to have people coming into the city. Culture and tourism is the engine for economic development, not just planning. There's a totally new model for economic development. Please don't demean what Karen Jedson and her staff is doing, sir. I don't like that one bit."
Langseth told Wilkinson he felt she was criticizing him, and again said he feels the department does not work with people in Warwick who know how to create jobs.
"They have no interest in people in this community," he said. "All they want to do is make fancy little things and suggest that people go to some restaurant or whatever. We need to have corporations come in, not Twitter."
In a brief interview at the meeting, Langseth said Linked-In is more of a professional social media outlet in comparison to Twitter and Facebook.
Merolla said, in Council Chambers, that he felt extending the bid wasn't in the city's best interest. He described it as a "slippery slope" that would allow no-bid contracts in the future.
"To hand out no-bid contracts is not in the best interest of the taxpayers," he said. As noted, it passed 7-2, with Merolla and Donovan voting in opposition.
While Solomon voted in favor, he said that the excess money should go into the city's general fund, as opposed to carrying over to the next year. He also wondered if the full amount was needed in the first place.
As for the ordinance regarding ward representation, Vella-Wilkinson drafted the legislation in hopes to allow a broader representation of the city. Colantuono, as well as Ward 5 Councilman-elect Ed Ladouceur, said they don't think being from a particular ward should disqualify a candidate. Rather, as long as they possess the ability to serve the city in the best regard. Colantuono has reflected his stance in recent votes for appointments.
But Vella-Wilkinson said people have asked her why they weren't considered for the boards or commissions. Not only does it provide them with an opportunity to serve the city, it also gives them the chance to add valuable accomplishments to their résumés.
"There are people that are qualified that don't get the opportunity to participate, and make their skills more commercially viable for jobs that we want to bring into the city," she said.
She also sponsored the resolution relative to veterans. When the veterans committee reviewed information to see what municipalities throughout the state provided to veterans, she said they found that the city of Warwick was in the bottom third statewide with regard to property tax exemption. The committee recommended doubling the exemption to $2,000.
"When you look at the sacrifices that our veterans make, this is the right thing to do," Vella-Wilkinson said. The resolution will need approval from the General Assembly.
Ladouceur asked where Warwick would rank if the resolution is approved. Vella-Wilkinson said it would move the city to the middle of the state.
"I would think that would be the least that we should do," he said, noting that two-thirds of homeless people in America are veterans. "For the city of Warwick, the second largest city in the state, to be the third worst in exemptions for veterans is wrong. That's just not acceptable."
Vella-Wilkinson agreed, noting that the committee hopes the council will again review city standings in two years, and consider increasing the exemption even more.
"We wanted to do it in small increments, so as not to overburden people at this time," she said. "Your point is very well taken."
She also sponsored the resolution relative to the landfill, along with Merolla, who said they were waiting for information from the Department of Environmental Management to make particular recommendations.
The ordinance requesting an actuary appear before the council passed on a 5-4 vote, with Council President Bruce Place, Ward 1 Councilman Steven Colantuono, Ward 6 Councilwoman Donna Travis and Ward 8 Councilman Ray Gallucci voting against it.
The meeting marked the last in which Place, Ward 5 Councilman John DelGiudice and Gallucci served as elected officials, and Boy Scout Troop 49 Lakewook presented Place with a plaque, thanking him for his service.
The troop also began the meeting by leading the assembly in the Pledge of Allegiance. Place then called for a moment of silence to honor the victims of Friday's Connecticut shooting. Business then ensued as usual.


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Thanks Pat, Ill see about running a thicker oil next time for those high heat situations. "As for worrying about your turbo in heat" here I thought you were talking about the turbo mating with another turbo... lol.Ill keep ya posted.Steve
Oh, forgot one thing.I also read that the inner seals between the two halves of the cooler have been known to fail as wel, which is whats happened in my case.Steve
Well, I'll wind up with a cooler AND a big oil filter!
I also thought that I may have an issue with what I think is my thermometer that sits just about where the FMIC core is going to go. I will have to look into that some more.OK, honest, no more hijacking of this thread.


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The race is on for longtime state Senator Adam Kline's seat. Pramila Jayapal, best known as the onetime founder of the immigrant advocacy group OneAmerica, announced today that she is throwing her hat in the ring to represent the 37th District.
Several other candidates have already announced, including Rory O'Sullivan, an attorney who manages a clinic helping renters who face eviction and Democratic activist Louis Watanabe. But the 48-year-old, Indian-born Jayapal brings the most star power so far.
Known nationally for her work with OneAmerica, which began in response to post-9/11 anti-Muslim activity, Jayapal has been showing up a lot at City Hall lately. Mayor Ed Murray appointed her as co-chair, along with former King County Executive Ron Sims, of a search committee for a new police chief. And she also serves on the mayor's advisory committee looking at raising the minimum wage.
On day one, she comes with a host of endorsements from high-profile figures, including Murray, Sims, and four City council members (Sally Clark, Mike O'Brien, Tim Burgess and Tom Rasmussen.) Sought-after political consultant Christian Sinderman is on her team as well. The line-up is all the more impressive since Jayapal says she decided to run just late last month.
She says she was motivated by the way federal issues have been filtering down to the state level recently—think of bills like the state Dream Act that allow undocumented immigrants financial aid for college—as well as the kind of experimentation she sees going on at the local level. She mentions the effort to increase the minimum wage to $15-an-hour.
She also says she wants to go to Olympia to "try to fix it." She's alluding to the partisanship that resulted in two special sessions last year before legislators passed a budget.
Kline, an uber-liberal, was not known for bridging the party divide. Indeed, critics saw him an ineffective because he championed many a left-leaning bill that never went anywhere.
Jayapal seems just as liberal as Kline. Yet, it's true, as she points out, that she has a history of reaching out to her opponents and, if not always making common cause, than at least establishing a relationship. Witness her rapport with former U.S. Attorney John McKay.
The two first met after a federal raid on a Somali-owned mini-mart in the Rainier Valley in 2001. Jayapal denounced the raid. McKay, a Republican appointed by George W. Bush, defended it. Yet the two stayed in touch for years and McKay, after he left the U.S. Attorney's office and began to teach law at Seattle University, regularly invited to her to speak to his classes.
Jayapal also holds an MBA. Her business experience includes selling defibrillators in the Midwest and working in investment banking on Wall Street. "I don't usually talk about it but I'm very comfortable with finance and budgets," she says, no doubt hinting about her suitability to work on a certain task of the legislature that everybody hopes will be a less painful process next time around.


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I have been going nonstop all weekend through now, getting ready for Gen Con Indy – making and setting up displays, pulling books and T-shirts, framing artwork and prints, and everything else that goes into a show like this. Whew. I am beat and Gen Con hasn't even started. Everything is packed up in the truck and ready to go. Most of the rest of the crew having working till 10:30 PM to get everything ready for the big event. Thanks, guys.
Nick Bradshaw has flown in so he can ride down with us and help set up, and Mike Mumah arrives this evening.
UPDATE: Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ is at the PRINTER and ships a week after Gen Con, around August 12 or 15. We will have 110 advance, top quality POD (print on demand) copies at Gen Con. Keep those pre-orders coming so that whatever day the book arrives we can ship it to you immediately.
FREE Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ Sneak Preview available now from DriveThruRPG.com. Check it out. Remember, it is just a taste of what's in the book. There is so much more. To get the free PDF download of the Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ Sneak Preview, go to DriveThruRPG.com. It is easy to create a free account and only takes a couple of minutes. Sneak Previews of Armageddon Unlimited™ and Rifts® Thundercloud Galaxy™ are also available. DriveThruRPG.com is a good resource for getting the Hades & Dyval Map Pack, The Rifter® Number Zero, The Rifter® #1-48 and to fill in your RPG library with first edition copies of Rifts®, Palladium Fantasy®, Heroes Unlimited™, and other game lines, as well as books such as Nightbane® Book Four: Shadows of Light™ and both versions of the The Mechanoids® RPG (1985) and The Collected Mechanoid Invasion® Trilogy (1981-1983).
UPDATE: Rifts® Lemuria. We are already at work on Rifts® Lemuria and the Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook. The initial edit of Lemuria has been done, and now we are in the rewrite and final editing stage. I spoke with Chuck Walton and approved the rest of his final pieces of artwork, all of which look amazing. The rest of the artwork from the other artists is in and it rocks. This book is going to surprise a lot of people. Place your pre-orders, because this baby will ship in August.
UPDATE: Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook. Writer Matthew Clements has been bouncing between the Vampires Sourcebook and the Rifts® Black Market book all week. This 128 page book is already half done! Should be out in September. And you will love it. Everything that couldn't fit in the Vampire Kingdoms™ World Book is here: Fort Reid and more on Reid's Rangers, Techno-Wizard weapons and a whole lot more. See the new description for it in this Weekly Update.
UPDATE: Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook. Spoke with Tommy Yune at Harmony Gold and they are excited about this and probably another Robotech® Sourcebook™ coming out this fall. Us too.
UPDATE: Back in Print: The three new back in print titles have been flying out the Palladium warehouse door, especially Rifts® World Book 23: Xiticix Invasion™.
The following books are back in print and available now. We'll have them at Gen Con, too.
Available Now:
Note: All six books in the Coalition Wars/Siege on Tolkeen series are in print.
The following titles are also recently back in print and ready to ship:
UPDATE: Online sales. So far, we've seen stronger sales this week with pre-orders coming in at a steady pace for Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms, Rifts® Lemuria, as well as Rifts® World Book 23: Xiticix Invasion™, Sedition™ and Coalition Overkill™. Cool. I suspect we'll see a sales bump for Rifts® New West™, Spirit West™ and Rifts® Arzno™: Vampire Incursion™ when Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™ comes out as they are all ideal companions for it, Rifts® Lone Star too.
UPDATE: 2012 Palladium Open House. Don't forget about this cool event. We plan to make it an epic celebration. There are still a few VIP Night admissions available. Folks have also been reserving their hotel rooms. Excellent. We already have gamers coming from across the USA, Canada, England and Germany! Join the fun.
We'll be there. We hope you will too. Swing by and say hello, get some autographs, play in demo games, get the latest products, buy books to fill in your collection and have fun.
Palladium Creators You Can Meet at Gen Con:
And maybe a few others.
Mike Mumah will be doing convention character sketches (maybe Bradshaw too), plus there will be prints and original art for sale. Brandon Aten plans to run a Rifts® Triax game and Zachary Houghton and Lonnie Langston are running demos of Palladium games. Join the fun.
Most of us are at Palladium Booth 1125 for much of the day so you'll have easy access to us. Stop by to say hello, get books autographed, character sketches, original art, and buy the latest releases, back stock titles, some out of print books (like Ninja Turtles® RPG titles, Rifts® Ultimate Gold and others), collectibles, T-Shirts and other goodies. The guys and I are happy to sign books and chit chat for a little while with everyone who swings by the booth, so come on over and join the fun.
I'll give you all a full Gen Con Report in the next Weekly Update.
UPDATE: Alex is doing well. I'm happy to report Alex is doing much better.
QueenofGhouls.com – Palladium's very own Kathy Simmons plans to crank out more zombies, witches, werewolves and monsters for her online store. She's working away on a couple of zombies and has plans for much more cool stuff. Check it out in her online store. Kathy continues to whip up new creations with more life sized Halloween props going up this weekend. Halloween is creeping up fast.
Palladium's booth space has been reserved and we will be at the Detroit Fanfare, September 24 & 25 at Cobo Hall, downtown Detroit. One of the guests is Kevin Eastman – co-creator of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles®. So this fun comic book and media convention will be a great chance to get your Ninja Turtles® game books (and comics) signed by one of the creators. Other guests include fan boy favorite actor, Bruce Campbell, and dozens and dozens of comic book guests. Palladium fans may be interested to know Dave Dorman (Palladium cover artist), Tim Bradstreet, and pal, Defiler and Palladium contributor of old, William Messner Loebs will also be attending, among many other guests. I'll keep you posted as we firm up the details.
Click here for more information about Detroit Fanfare.
This is a trade show for retailers, but many hard working store owners and their employees are gamers and Palladium fans. I invite you to bring books for us to sign for your own collections and/or to put in your store as an extra selling feature. We're happy to do it. I, Kevin Siembieda, and Wayne Smith will be present at the event. Also, please drop by to chat and get the latest news and developments at Palladium.
– Kevin Siembieda, Publisher
The Rifter® shipped last week and is available now. It is your doorway to unlimited imagination and numerous Palladium role-playing worlds. It offers new heroes, powers, weapons, magic and adventure for your games. It presents new villains, monsters and dangers to battle, and new ideas to consider.
The Rifter® #55: Looks fantastic. Packed with adventure and game ideas for your campaigns.
Earth is home to thousands of alien species from beyond the Rifts, but one of the strangest and most dangerous is the Xiticix. A danger nobody seemed to realize until the sprawling Hivelands began to encroach on the territories of other people. Armed with new breeds of aggressive warriors, new weapons and legions of insectoids willing to fight to the death, people are beginning to wonder if they are the next threat to humanity.
Magic vs Technology. All-out war between the Coalition and the Magic Kingdom of Tolkeen. Even if you don't play the war, the series offers fantastic source material: magic artifacts, Spells of Legend, Techno-Wizard war machines, maps, cities, towns, monsters and scores of NPCs you can drop into any campaign. All six titles are in print.
The Books in the Siege on Tolkeen Series: All are available now.
The Coalition Army is in place and waging war on Tolkeen, a Kingdom of Magic. This sourcebook lays the groundwork for an epic conflict and ongoing campaign. If you don't want to play out the war, it provides all kinds of valuable stand-alone source material, magic items, magic spells, magic weapons, TW Iron Juggernauts, monsters, villains and adventure ideas.
The war escalates on both sides. A new breed of Coalition officers begin to come to the forefront, and with them cruelty, murder and genocide. The Coalition Army is ruthless, but Tolkeen has a few tricks up its sleeve, like an alliance with a race of ancient demons known as the Daemonix.
Trust us, you want this book.
For centuries, Mexico has been considered the realm of monsters best left alone. A land dominated by packs of Wild Vampires and rumored to be home of Vampire Kingdoms in the south. Most of the northern civilizations have stayed away, but over the last 20 years, a growing number of heroes, vampire slayers and adventurers have been waging something of a secret war against the undead. As that battle escalates, stories of heroes, vampires and entire human populations enslaved by the undead or penned, raised and slaughtered like cattle, are starting to leak out. Come see for yourself if the rumors are true and join the battle for humanity in Mexico.
The power, secrets and magic of the underwater realm of Lemuria revealed. Player characters can use symbiotes, magic and technology to breathe underwater and spend time below the waves.
Lemuria is more than an underwater civilization of aquatic beings. They can trace their lineage as far back as the Atlanteans and can survive on dry land as well as underwater. In fact, their greatest secret is that there is no one resting place for the Lemurians, their great cities are always moving. Learn about the people of Lemuria, new Biomancy magic and weapons, Biomancy engineered riding animals, sea herbs, new powers of healing, sea monsters, and more. Epic adventure awaits.
Trouble is stirring in the Vampire Kingdoms as ambitious vampire lords, ladies and misanthropes seek to expand their power to dominate more mortal life forms.
Kevin Siembieda, here. I was dealing with so many other things (Alex's health and house, coordinating the next several books, Gen Con prep, business, etc.) and lost track of how much I had written for Vampire Kingdoms™, and went over by more than 100 manuscript pages (plus notes and ideas for more)! The good news is, Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook is at least half written and we should easily make the September release date. I have Matthew Clements doing writing and editing for that book right now. Best of all, it's going to be just as exciting and packed with cool stuff as Rifts® Vampire Kingdoms™.
This Robotech® sourcebook will be a 2011 release.
Note: With any luck, there will be companion Robotech® sourcebook released by the end of the year.
The Minion War spills across Rifts Earth, where demons and infernals hope to recruit allies and use the Rifts as gateways of destruction. Their influence shakes things up across the planet, especially at locations where demons and Deevils already have a strong presence. More details to follow, but for now, 'nuff said.
Data about the chaos and madness of the early days of the Great Cataclysm, and the brave men and women who tried to stem the tide of destruction and save lives, the First Responders.
This is the ultimate guide to magic on Rifts Earth. All the magic spells, magic tattoos, Techno-Wizard items, magic weapons, equipment, body armor, restraints, parasites, symbiotes, magic items, Automatons, Iron Juggernauts, and more from Rifts® World Books 1-23, Sourcebooks 1-4, and Siege on Tolkeen 1-6, collected into one big reference. This is a great reference book. Kevin and all of us at Palladium use it and the Rifts® Game Master Guide constantly.
This fan-favorite sourcebook is filled with high-tech wonders, magic and monsters. There are 20 O.C.C.s (Occupational Character Classes) that range from the traditional ninja and samurai to power armor, giant robots and cyborgs.
The Coalition State of Lone Star is a wild and woolly place of contrast and conflict. The Coalition States claims the entire State of Texas as their own, but they only control a small corner of it. It is here, at the Lone Star Complex, that the CS engages in genetic engineering and creates the famous Dog Boys and a host of other mutants. The rest of the state is held by the Pecos Empire – an empire of bandits, outlaws and rebels. The perfect companion to Rifts® New West™, Rifts® Spirit West™ and Rifts® Machinations of Doom™.
This is a great resource for getting out of print Palladium titles and other select books. We've made 90 titles available as PDF digital downloads fromDriveThruRPG.com. This is a great way to try Palladium products and get access to out of print RPG source material. Some notable titles include.
- Splicers® RPG
- Beyond the Supernatural™ RPG, First Edition Rules.
- Boxed Nightmares™ for BTS, First Edition Rules.
- Nightbane® Book Four: Shadows of Light™.
- The Mechanoids® RPG and The Mechanoid Invasion® RPG Trilogy.
- Palladium Fantasy RPG®, First Edition Rules and select 1st Edition sourcebooks.
- After the Bomb® RPG and sourcebooks.
- The Rifter® issues 1-48.
- The Best of The Rifter®
- Deluxe Revised RECON® RPG and Advanced RECON® Sourcebook.
- And more – go to DriveThruRPG.com and check 'em out.
2011 Palladium Releases
2011 New Releases & Back in Print
- Rifts® Dimension Book™ 14: Thundercloud Galaxy™ – New – Available now!
- Armageddon Unlimited™ – New – Available now!
- The Rifter® #53 – New – Available now!
- The Rifter® #54 – New – Available now!
- Aliens Unlimited™ – A Heroes Unlimited™ sourcebook – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 20: Canada – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Dark Conversions™ – Back in print – Available now
- Palladium Fantasy RPG® – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Game Master Guide – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 5: Triax & The NGR™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Bionics Sourcebook – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® China One – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Megaverse® Builder – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Baseball Cap – Back in stock – Available now
- Rifts® Dimension Book™ 6: Three Galaxies™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Black Vault™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Mercenaries™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 8: Rifts® Japan™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 13: Lone Star™ – Back in print – Available now
- Rifts® Book of Magic – Back in print – Available now
June 2011 Releases
- Rifts® WB 23: Free Quebec™ – BACK IN PRINT – Available now
July 2011 Releases
- The Rifter® #55 – New – Available now
- Rifts® Coalition Wars® Book One: Sedition– BACK IN PRINT – Available now
- Rifts® Coalition Wars® Book Two: Coalition Overkill – BACK IN PRINT – Available now
- Rifts® World Book 23: Xiticix Invasion™ – BACK IN PRINT – Available now
August 2011 Releases
- Rifts® World Book 1: Vampire Kingdoms™, New Revised Edition – New – August 10 – At the printer
- Rifts® World Book: Lemuria – New – August – in final production
- Heroes Unlimited™: Mutant Underground™ – coming back in print
September 2011 Releases
- Robotech® New Generation™ Sourcebook – New
- Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™ – New (tentative)
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™: Rise of Magic – coming back in print
October 2011 Releases
- Dead Reign™ Sourcebook Three – New
- Rifts® Megaverse® in Flames (Minion War™ crossover) – New
- Another new title may be added or substituted
November 2011 Releases
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™ Sourcebook: First Responders – New
In the Pipeline
- Robotech® UEEF Marines and other Robotech® sourcebooks.
- Rifts® sourcebooks
- Rifts® Chaos Earth™ sourcebooks
- Palladium Fantasy®: Mysteries of Magic™ Two & Three
- Palladium Fantasy® other sourcebooks
- Warpath™ Urban Jungle RPG
- And other good stuff. Lots of other good stuff!
Beyond the Supernatural™: Arcanum
Beyond the Supernatural™: Tome Grotesque
Beyond the Supernatural™ Sourcebook
Chaos Earth™ First Responders
Chaos Earth™ – Zombie Apocalyse Rifts-style during the Great Cataclysm.
Heroes Unlimited™ – Had two people who were supposed to be working on a pair of books, but they disappeared on me, so we are looking for folks to write a couple HU2 sourcebooks.
Nightbane® – An as of yet untitled project, and looking for more.
Palladium Fantasy® – Mysteries of Magic 2 & 3
Palladium Fantasy® – Tombs of Gersidi expanded and new.
Plus I have a few ideas on this front myself to revitalize this line.
Phase World®: United Worlds of Warlock™
Phase World®: Pirates of the Three Galaxies™
Rifts® Antarctica
Rifts® Black Market
Rifts® China Three
Rifts® Deep South
Rifts® New Navy™
Rifts® Northern Gun™ – may be a series of books.
Rifts® Sovietski™
Rifts® Titan Industries™
Rifts® Vampires Sourcebook™
Robotech® Genesis Pits™ adventure sourcebook.
Robotech® UEEF Marines™
Splicers® Sourcebook One – concepts and art by Charles Walton.
Splicers® Sourcebook Two – concepts and art by Charles Walton.
All of the above are being written right now. A few are already finished. Most will be 2012 releases. And this does not include projects I would like to do for Palladium Fantasy®, Dead Reign™, Warpath™: Urban Jungle and new mediums.
The Palladium Open House is like nothing you have ever attended. It has a fun, family feel and is three days (four with VIP night) of games, fun and wonderful memories. People talk about it for years, and this may be the last one ever.
● Meet 40+ Palladium creators available throughout the entire event.
● Game with half of the creators present.
● Get autographs from all Palladium creators.
● Have the time of your life.
● We are hosting this event because YOU begged us to do it. So come on over. I promise to make it as special as possible.
● Costume Contest with cool awards and meaty prizes.
● Panel talks that are fun and insightful.
● 90+ Gaming Events:
This may be our last Open House. Having sufficient parking is becoming a big issue. You may have to car pool from the hotel as it is. And the event is a ton of work that takes four weeks out of our production schedule. It is especially hard on Kathy Simmons, who coordinates most of it and does the catering (we'll try to help her more). So we may make this our big, final Open House blow out.
V.I.P. Thursday (May 3, 2012). Available now. YOU are the VIP. You get in an afternoon early (doors open at 3:00 PM – catered dinner at 5:30 PM) and are the first to play in special game events, participate in special panel talks, purchase items, and enjoy a dinner catered by Kathy Simmons (and those who have been to past VIP nights know how awesome that is). Reserve your place today.
Weekend Admission is Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Reserve your place today. Placing your order early helps us on many levels, and tells us how many people to expect and how many hotel rooms to reserve.
Individual Day Admission - Friday - Saturday - Sunday might work better for you. If you can only make it one day, that's cool. Reserve your slot.
Hotel is the location you love at the same 2009 rates ($69.95 a night). The hotel does not charge your card until a day before the event, so reserve NOW. I'm concerned they might run out of rooms. Based on the economy, the hotel has not reserved the entire hotel for us as they have in the past. Book your room fast so you know you have a place to stay. The hotel now offers free hot breakfasts and we will have two conference rooms for late night gaming and open gaming.
We need G.M.s. This means we'll be looking for volunteer Game Masters (you get a T-shirt and a discount on books if you run three "official" games or more).
Plan to enter the Costume Contest. Winners get a nice plaque and real prizes. Rifts/sci-fi, fantasy, modern (includes horror) and best of show are the categories.
Click here for more details and to reserve your tickets.
Check out the new creations by Palladium's very own Kathy Simmons. See her zombie doctor and other new zombies, Jack Skellington and Sally, and more. New creations are on the drawing board, and so is a new website. Each Halloween prop is truly life-sized (most are 6 feet or taller – Jack is almost 8 feet) and seems almost alive.
Each is an all-weather, life-sized Halloween prop that can handle rain and snow, and is a one-of-a-kind work of art (no two are exactly the same). Each looks frighteningly "real." All come apart and fold down to slightly larger than a king-size pillow for easy storage. Comes with easy instructions, a plastic storage bag, and the lawn stake to stand it up in your front yard. Indoor stand sold separately.
Types of "Ghouls" include: Zombies (all kinds!), killer clowns, wizards, witches, devils, grave ghouls, scarecrows, executioners, mad doctors, deadly nurses, vampires, werewolves, and more. Kathy's also now offering an array of hand-painted Halloween signs, signs with heads and bodies hanging from them, witch's brewing pots, Halloween centerpieces and more. Best of all, her high quality creations are much more affordable and imaginative than most competitors or mass produced items in a store, making them affordable Halloween fun.
If you think the photos online look good, you should see them in person. A typical "ghoul," as she calls her creations, costs $129-$259. You can see some of her work at her Queen of Ghouls™ Ebay store – queenofghouls.com.
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The Wizard of the 'Wizard'
To Please a Child
The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was
The Oz Scrapbook
Wonderful Wizard Marvelous Land
"I have just seen a number of landscapes by an American painter of some repute," wrote John Ruskin in 1856; "and the ugliness of them is Wonderful. I see that they are true studies and that the ugliness of the country must be unfathomable." This was not kind. But then the English of that day had no great liking for the citizens of the Great Republic. Twenty-four years earlier Mrs. Trollope had commented without warmth on the manners and the domestic arrangements of United Statesmen (or persons, as we must now, androgynously, describe ourselves). Twelve years earlier Charles Dickens had published Martin Chuzzlewit. Dickens had found the American countryside raw. The cities ramshackle. The people grasping, boastful, even—yes, dishonest. This was not at all kind. But then how could these British travelers have known that in a century's time the barbarous republic beyond the western sea would not once but twice pull from the flames of war (or "conflagration" as they say in California) England's chestnuts?
In 1856 the United States was a provincial backwater. The eruption of energy that was to fuel the future empire did not begin until five years later when the Civil War broke out. By war's end the United States was a great industrial power with satanic cities every bit as ugly and infernal as Birmingham and Manchester, with a vast flat interior that was peculiarly susceptible to those drastic changes in weather (and so fortune) that make farming an exciting occupation, with a somewhat thin civilization that has not to this day quite got off the ground in the sense that Europe's nation-states were able to do in those dark confused centuries that followed on the death of Charlemagne, and Christendom.
Yet during 1856 a number of interesting things happened in the United States. Mrs. Carl Schurz opened the first kindergarten at Watertown, Wisconsin. In Chelsea, Massachusetts, the Universalist Church observed, for the first time anywhere, Children's Day. In New York City the big theatrical hit of the season was a pantomime (from London) called Planche, or Lively Fairies. The year's most successful book of poems was J.G. Whittier's The Panorama and Other Poems, a volume that included "The Barefoot Boy." People were unexpectedly interested in the care, education, and comfort of children. It is somehow both fitting and satisfying that on May 15 of the first American Children's Year Lyman Frank Baum was born.
Like most Americans my age (with access to books), I spent a good deal of my youth in Baum's land of Oz. I have a precise, tactile memory of the first Oz book that came into my hands. It was the original 1910 edition of The Emerald City. I still remember the look and the feel of those dark green covers, the evocative smell of dust and old ink. I also remember that I could not stop reading…
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Six tips for adding vigor to your writing
Following some basic principles of composition will help you express your thoughts clearly and concisely.
Companionable is the first word that comes to mind when I think of The Elements of Style, Strunk and White's succinct handbook on writing. When polishing my work, I turn to it as I would a reliable friend who speaks with brevity and wit and who never fails to give useful advice. Here are a few tips from the book to help you with your next sales memo.
1. Use the active voice.
The active voice usually delivers more punch than the passive voice. Consider these examples.
Passive: Copies of last week's minutes were distributed by me to the group.
Active: I distributed last week's minutes to the group.
In the first sentence the speaker seems less bold, less direct—less willing perhaps to assume responsibility for handing out minutes.
Writers are sometimes reluctant to use the first person pronoun I. They shouldn't be. In most cases, saying I won't make you appear self-absorbed. Instead, it will show that you are willing to take ownership of your work.
2. Put statements in positive form.
"Make definite assertions," Strunk and White advise. To give your writing more force and vigor, it is better to say what something is than to say what it isn't. Avoid sounding timid or evasive, as though unwilling to offend.
Indirect: He was not always mindful about arriving on time.
Direct: He usually came late.
3. Use definite, specific, concrete language.
Strong details evoke memories and sensations─and help liven the world on the page. The following examples come straight from The Elements:
Vague: A period of unfavorable weather set in.
Concise: It rained every day for a week.
After reading the first sentence, a reader might wonder what kind of unfavorable weather the writer is referring to. A cold drizzle that lasts a week at the shore, or a moment's hail that drums on a shed roof? Selecting the right details adds color to your work.
4. Omit needless words.
The fewer words you use, the quicker the reader will grasp your meaning. In the following list, the italicized words are the ones to toss into the compost pile:
used for educational purposes used for education
the question as to whether whether
the reason as to why because
5. Express coordinate ideas in similar form.
Keep items parallel in lists. Following a pattern does not make your writing boring and predictable; it gives it rhythm and balance.
Not: Surgery, radiation, and to give chemotherapy are possible therapeutic approaches.
But: Surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy are possible therapeutic approaches.
6. Keep related words together.
Confusion and ambiguity result when words are carelessly placed in a sentence. Here are more examples from The Elements:
Confusing: He noticed a large stain in the rug that was right in the center.
Clear: He noticed a large stain right in the center of the rug.
In the first sentence it's hard to tell which is in the center—the stain or the rug. The second sentence leaves the reader with no doubt.
Years ago I encountered on a client's desk a small plaque with the words Be brief, be bright, be gone. No doubt the plaque was intended for visitors who overstay their welcome, but I suspect that the same sentiment goes for writing. Say what you've come to say, then exit—as gracefully as you can.>> Click here to return to Brand Incites blog page


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BRISTOL, Tenn. – The King College men's volleyball and women's basketball programs will be hosting youth summer camps in July. Registration is current open for both camps and can be done online.
download camp brochure | register online
The Tornado men's volleyball team will host their youth camp from July 22-25 for boys ages 10-17 years. Campers will receive instruction from members of the King Tornado team and staff that will improve overall skill, technique, and team play. The four-day camp includes meals, housing on campus, and a free-shirt for $300. Registration is currently open and can be completed and paid for online by clicking here or by downloading the camp brochure and sending the bottom of the form completed to the address below. Campers must register by July 9, 2012.
Payment for the camp must be made either by mail at the address listed below of at check-in. For any questions, please contact Head Coach Ryan Booher at 423-652-6333 or email@example.com.
King Men's Volleyball finished second in Conference Carolinas in 2011, produced two All-Conference players in 2012, and had one alum begin a professional volleyball career in Puerto Rico.
Make checks payable to:
KC Men's Volleyball
ATTN: Ryan Booher
1350 King College Road
Bristol, TN 37620
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For ladies ages 7-17, the King College women's basketball team will be hosting its summer camp to teach those more than just the game of basketball. From Monday, July 9 to Friday, July 13 campers will learn the fundamentals of shooting, dribbling, passing, defense, in addition to core qualities of teamwork, sportsmanship, and the importance of character on the court. The camp will run from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. on each of the five days. The camp will be led by coaches Josh Thompson and Shelly Yount (bios below). The camp will be help in the Student Center Complex, on the campus of King College.
Cost of the five-day camp is $125 in addition to a $25 registration fee. Each camper will receive a free t-shirt and at the end of the camp, team awards will be distributed. Registration is now open and can be completed and paid for online by clicking here. Payment must be done by mail or at camp sign-in. If you have any additional questions, please call or e-mail Assistant Coach Shelly Yount at 423-652-4855 or email@example.com.
Please make checks payable to "King Lady Tornado Basketball Camp" and send to the following address, or pay in-person:
1350 King College Road
ATTN: King Lady Tornado Basketball Camp
Bristol, TN 37620
Josh Thompson bio
Josh Thompson has 15 years summer camp experience and 10 years head coaching experience at the Division II level. He played point guard at Nyack College in New York for four years. He won the MVP of the conference tournament his senior year. He also won the CACC conference title as a player and a coach. Thompson led his team to the NAIA national tournament his senior year and coached his team to NCAA DII National Tournament in 2010. Thompson won the CACC Coach of the year honor in 2010.
Shelly Yount played basketball under Josh Thompson at Nyack College for four years. As a player, she was a captain for three years and helped her team win the CACC conference regular season title as well as the tournament title her last season. She has three years camp experience as well as two years college coaching experience at the DII level. She was also a lifeguard and swim instructor for eight years and holds certifications in lifeguarding, CPR, AED, and conscious/unconscious obstructed airway.


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TORONTO, CANADA - 27 JANUARY, CNN iReport - Canada will "do the right things" when people who have been prosecuted approach to it for protection, said Chris Alexander, Canada's Minister of Citizenship and Immigration. Our correspondent met with the Minister and talked about the situation in Ukraine
Andrey VASILIEV, journalist: There is a position that any dialog between the regime and the citizens will not work without the pressure from western politics. Do you think Ukraine still has a chance to resolve the situation by its own?
Chris ALEXANDER, Canada's Citizenship and Immigration Minister: The solutions will be found by Ukrainians for their country. We will always respect the suverinete the independent Ukraine. But in cases like that it does matter who speaks out, it does matter what friends say outside, it does matter that we have a coordinated approach with Washington, with Brussels, with other European countries.
The other question is if the Ukrainian neighbour to the East allows Ukrainians to negotiate and to decide these things. We would hate to think that anyone in President Putin's government in Moscow welcomes violence, welcomes the fact that the Ukrainian regime, that they have supported that strongly, has now fired upon and killed some of its own unarmed protestors.
That would be unwelcomed development if we had that kind of reaction: support for the use of force, support for violence from Moscow. And we would urge our Russian partners to leave this discussion to Ukrainians, to open the door to negotiation and to avoid the escalation of the situation that has already begun.
Andrey VASILIEV: Canada was one of the first countries that called to action and declared a chance of visa restrictions and individual financial sanctions implementations against Ukrainian politicians, responsible for the violations of human rights and freedoms. Mr.Baird has been in Kiev and personally observed the situation in the beginning of December, 2013. That visit did not lead to any additional steps from official Canada and was not supported by new declarations from Canada's government. Why was that? Did any change of Canadian position have place?
Chris ALEXANDER: Our position absolutely has not changed. We are in favour of democratic future for Ukraine we are in favour of its integration into a larger global economy, which for Ukraine means the larger European economy. We wanted to see negotiations on Association agreement succeed and they have not. And as a result we have been defended the rights of protesters to stay peacefully their view.
And we have counted on those protest remaining peaceful on their rights being respected. As after tonight it has not been respected, as after tonight they have been violent on the significant scale and so Canada will be looking now, at all the options available for us in these new circumstances.
We already have laws that make those people who have committed acts that would be crimes in Canada who have committed atrocities or war crimes inadmissible to this country. They are inadmissible to this country.
We will look at all options available to us to respond appropriately to this events and to ensure that those responsible face concrete tangible consequences.
All Canadians feel the pain and share the pain that Ukrainians are experiencing tonight. It is a dark night for us as it is for all of Ukrainian. When innocent people, innocent protesters lose their lives.
We are deeply concerned about this turn towards violence, we have been supporting the right to peaceful assembling, the right to peaceful protest by those who want better future for Ukraine.
Andrey VASILIEV: The US Senate has approved a resolution that specifies stronger measures against Ukraine and threatened with coming sanctions. Has Canadian Parliament had any consultations or discussions about the case of raising violent conflict in Ukraine?
Chris ALEXANDER: ...for Canada Ukraine is a privilege partner, a country with which we have a special relationship, because of a share history.
We will take a very-very careful account of what has happened on the ground, who is responsible before deciding what the next steps Canada itself will take. In the meantime, all of the options are on table and the consultations taking here are intense and in a wide range.
Andrey VASILIEV: Around 4% of Canadians have Ukrainian background or Ukrainian citizenship. Does Canada have any plans of changing the immigration policies for them or those Ukrainians who would try to apply for a legal status in Canadian provinces due to the political events in Kiev?
Chris ALEXANDER: We are prepared to welcome people as refugees under our very generous and now reformed determination system. Ukraine is always in our thoughts when it comes to immigration issues in Canada.
And yes, we will do the right things when people who have been prosecuted approach us for protection.
Journalist: Andrey Vasiliev
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Tampa, FL (PRWEB) February 12, 2013
A new book, "ZUrabia," by Peter Dash, is a cautionary tale that offers a unique take on current affairs among the world's important institutions.
Dash draws from his experience as a world-traveled professor, and researcher for Harvard University's Center for International Affairs. Using his research, he warns through his thriller of a synchronized alliance of mass evil that makes Al-Qaeda look like a picnic.
"Take corrupt bankers, who have already wrecked our economy, and compromised national security. Stir in Nazi movements, now gaining increased traction in places like Greece. Pour in accelerating nuclear proliferation due to a corrupt physicist and rogue states. (Sound like Iran and North Korea today?) Add more than a pinch of Al-Qaeda and a Mexican drug cartel who Dash further predicts may join together with the whole evil lot," Dash says. "Voila, 'ZUrabia.'"
This cautionary tale is not only a thriller, but a wake-up call to Homeland Security and everyone in the West who thinks all is getting better and that we have already seen the worst," he says. "It's a wake-up for those who think nothing could be much bigger in total destructive effect than Al-Qaeda.
Fortunately, as in real life, there are protectors and potential saviors. Adrian Sands, a Harvard associate and ex-mercenary, teams up with a female Masonic order in the book. Though Dash does not think any female Freemasons will solve our world's problems, the fact that he includes them in a partially satirical twist to his plot echoes his belief that more women in power would be a good start for world harmony. (Curiously, female Freemasonry seems to be excluded from many thrillers with Freemason content.)
But can anyone save us from what may be a real-world ZUrabia? No, he says, especially if western bankers continue to launder terrorist and criminal money.
During his research in Harvard in 1986, Dash correctly predicted gravely weakening western institutions, and that is why he made "ZUrabia" a cautionary tale.
"Fortunately, for the moment, 'ZUrabia' primarily makes for an entertaining page-turner, duplicated by a few thriller bestsellers in terms of research and intellectual quality," Dash says.
About Peter Dash
Peter Dash has been a teacher, professor and corporate trainer for the past 17 years in Saudi Arabia, the former Soviet Union and China. He has an applied science degree in forestry and a master's in applied teaching. He was a researcher in world order and youth groups at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs, started by Henry Kissinger. He follows the investment field intensely, focusing on commodity funds and trends. Fifteen percent of his book's royalties will go to needy students consistent with the many years Dash has worked in assisting voluntary youth organizations. Dash invests in Gold ETFs and commodity trading companies.


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Officials announced that an ambitious three-year project to digitize more than 300,000 state records from the Freedmen's Bureau archives has been completed and now is available online. Virginia is the first of the former 14 slave-owning states to have its records digitized. The records include names, marriages, educational pursuits, work contracts and other information."This project is exciting for Virginia and exciting for the world," said Gov. Timothy M. Kaine, announcing the milestone outside of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia in Richmond.The Governor of Virginia, Tim Kaine's site notes that the project was created "Under the direction of the Black History Museum and Cultural Center of Virginia and in collaboration with FamilySearch, volunteers digitized the records of names, marriages, educational pursuits, work contracts, health care and legal services and other important information from the Virginia Freedmen's Bureau. The records can now be viewed temporarily at the FamilySearch web site, and negotiations are currently ongoing to permanently host the records through the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of African American History and Culture."
There is just one problem. The records are not on FamilySearch. They are also not on any of the Virginia sites. The links in the articles do not lead to the records. Where are they? It looks like the announcement is premature. If any of my readers has found the records, please let me know where they are?